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Nextera, a Simplified Communications featured carrier, offers customizable solutions for voice, data and internet services via Minnesota’s largest fixed wireless internet network. Because the company controls its entire wireless network, independent of any phone company, both business and residential customers can enjoy high-quality, symmetrical bandwidth with faster installations and greater savings. The company’s portfolio of facility options includes fixed wireless, Ethernet over Copper (EoC), T-1 and fiber, and its voice services include T-1, SIP Trunking, Hosted PBX and more.

Not only is fixed-wireless a more efficient and affordable path to high-speed bandwidth, it's also secure and reliable. Nextera’s network is designed based on carrier class standards and uses signal modulation to ensure optimal throughput during adverse conditions. What’s more, a variety of performance enhancing techniques are utilized to maximize network performance and user experience.​For more information about Nextera and how Simplified Communications can simplify your telecommunications plan, contact us today.

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Simplified Communications brokers offer an unbiased approach when working with clients to optimize the telecommunication services that best fit their needs. One of the top carriers that Simplified often recommends is Onvoy, which merged with and came under the brand of Inteliquent in early 2017.

Onvoy was established in 1997, when a local Minnesota telco consortium merged with Minnesota Regional Networks (MRNet). The company quickly grew as a leader in communications enablement solutions, including inbound voice, long distance, tandem, SS7, and voice peering delivered over a carrier-grade network.

As Inteliquent, the company is equipped to provide customers with a superior network experience through industry-leading voice quality, a reliable and expansive network footprint, and advanced features – all supported by a team of market experts. More than 70 percent of Inteliquent’s traffic is managed on-net, and the network carries more than 25 billion voice minutes and text messages per month. Additionally, Inteliquent’s portals and APIs allow customers to manage services whenever and wherever they are needed with intuitive interfaces and rich features.

Through the Inteliquent network, customers can:

​Improve the quality of outbound voice calls by terminating more than 70 percent of calls on-net, reducing the number of hops to a target phone number.

Expand local service reach by with Inteliquent's local phone number footprint, which reaches more than 7,000 on-net rate centers in 49 states with extended network reach to Puerto Rico and Canada.

Improve the reliability of inbound and outbound calls by leveraging an industry-leading voice network that includes maximum in-market switch redundancy, backbone redundancy and network scaling.

​Last Monday, President Trump signed into law a reversal of Internet privacy rules that allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) the ability to sell consumer information such as geolocation and browsing history to advertisers. This previous Federal Communications Commission (FCC) law passed in October required ISPs to receive permission before selling consumer information.

So what changed since from October to last Monday, and how does it affect your privacy?.

How will this affect you?Truthfully, you are unlikely to notice any changes. Since the rules were instated in October, the FCC’s new broadband privacy rules had not yet even taken effect. ISPs such as Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon made statements defending the new law, pointing out there are many misunderstandings and misleading information around the new rules.

Proponents of the reversal of the rules note that it unfairly subjected ISPs to privacy restrictions that are not required of websites that collect user data for targeted ads, such as Facebook and Google. ​It's important to note that each ISP has its own privacy policy, some even promise not to sell your information to third parties. Each is required to send out a statement of privacy policies. We've all received these and it usually hits the trash before we read it, but you may look more closely next time. Comcast stated it would be revising its privacy policy to “make more clear and prominent that, contrary to the many inaccurate statements and reports, we do not sell our customers’ individual web browsing information to third parties.”

A new bill is being proposed by Senate Democrats that would reinstate privacy rules, although it is unlikely to pass.

Simplified Communications, based in Minneapolis, MN, has national relationships with all major carriers. Let us Simplify the process of putting together the perfect network solution, including broadband, cloud services, and phone systems.